Laugh Quotes

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

I want to make people laugh.

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.